Gay episodes of law and order svu

Law & Order: SVU Season 25 Still Has A Chance To Correct A Glaring Character Problem

Summary

  • Kat Tamin was SVU's only LGBTQ+ detective and her departure in season 23 left a representation gap that must be corrected in season
  • Adding LGBTQ+ guest stars is a start, but SVU must append a permanent LGBTQ+ main character for impactful and authentic representation.
  • The series has improved diversity among victims and detectives over 25 seasons, but still lacks LGBTQ+ voices in the main cast, a gap to be fixed.

Law & Order: SVU prides itself on uplifting the voices of survivors, but it has one lingering challenge regarding characters that season 25 can still fix. However, when the series first premiered back in , it mainly centered around white, female victims, with the occasional male murder victim thrown in. The first male sexual assault victim was not featured until season 3's "Ridicule," and as the title suggests, his case was not taken seriously by most people around him. There were also scant detectives of color included in the cast during this p

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Overview

No, we&#;re not talking about SVU and the whole Cabot/Benson thing. Law & Order actually had a lesbian who wasn&#;t a guest!

Serena Southerlyn (played by Elisabeth Röhm) appeared in 85 episodes and in one, and only one, did we learn she was a lesbian. The last one. Seriously, it&#;s one flipping line. Serena gets fired, she asks &#;Is this because I&#;m a lesbian?&#; Her boss says no, and that&#;s it.

There may or may not have been hints about it before. In the episode &#;Gov Love,&#; she had shown discomfort over a case in which McCoy successfully sought to have same-sex marriage declared illegal in Recent York in order to acquire testimony from a gay defendant&#;s spouse. Southerlyn had objected to this and refused to assist McCoy, but her sexual orientation was never mentioned. In another episode, an elderly woman asked Southerlyn if she was married or had a boyfriend; she said that she wasn&#;t, but the manner in which she stumbled over her respon

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This is a verified database of any and all gay-related episodes of the TV show "Law And Order Special Victims Unit" where I've listed LGBT-themed episodes and rated them on a "gay scale"' from 1 to 10, along with a brief explanation.  For clarity and completeness, all other episodes are listed & rated too, to verb that I've watched them, and marked with a "0" if no gay content.





#    episode title    rating     episode description

S13 E1    Scorched Earth    0 / 10   

S13 E2    Personal Foul    8 / 10    An inner-city youth basketball coach is investigated for molesting teenage boys.

S13 E3    Blood Brothers    5 / 10    Minor story arc involving a hustler at a gay bar, plus very short scene with a gay florist.

S13 E4    Double Strands    2 / 10    No gay content in the episode itself, although openly gay acto